Jonathan Freedman

The Bill That Would Have Jailed the Defenders

A proposed US ban on superintelligence would protect the lab behind July’s Hugging Face breach better than the team that cleaned it up

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The Card Was Never the Point

The UK government cancelled its digital ID card after 3 million people objected, then carried on building the infrastructure underneath it

Oct 5 • Jonathan Freedman

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September 2026

The Compliance Inversion

The device that holds your most sensitive data is the same one most actively surveilling you.

Sep 25 • Jonathan Freedman

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The Auditor Was Told to Leave

When an external safety test produces uncomfortable findings, the company can simply stop cooperating. In September, one did.

Sep 18 • Jonathan Freedman

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The Broken Clock

I frequently hear a breach number that no longer exists. The real problem is why it persists.

Sep 11 • Jonathan Freedman

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The Defender Pays

The UK's new cyber resilience law holds operators to account for AI threats but it asks nothing of the companies building the AI.

Sep 4 • Jonathan Freedman

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August 2026

The AI Did It

Who gets punished? Who goes to prison?

Aug 21 • Jonathan Freedman

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Where Does Your Minimum Viable Business Live?

Europe is building a sovereign AI stack while the UK is handing its most sensitive data to a US defence contractor

Aug 14 • Jonathan Freedman

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Don't Date Robots

A million people a week are confiding in AI. The AI has no duty of care and no confidentiality

Aug 7 • Jonathan Freedman

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July 2026

The Brake Pedal Problem

The people who built the accelerator are asking someone else to slow it down.

Jul 31 • Jonathan Freedman

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It Wasn’t Trying to Attack Anyone. That’s the Point.

Two OpenAI models escaped a secure test environment and breached Hugging Face. The breach wasn't the objective, it was a shortcut.

Jul 24 • Jonathan Freedman

Oracle or Tool

The AI question many organisations skipped

Jul 17 • Jonathan Freedman

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